Axerob's Development Blog.

Midterm Grades

Sat, 24 Oct 2009 13:11:15 GMT

Can anyone say, Deans list?!

PIcture of Me at Highschool Graduation

Wed, 07 Oct 2009 20:59:54 GMT

I died when I saw this picture, died..I forgot about it.

I'm the one on the far left...I think we were trying to look tough i guess? Don't remember loool.

BLH Review

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 22:11:30 GMT

Yes, I'm reviewing my own game for one reason: Because I can. I had first joined the team back in late 2007, there was no source when I had joined the team and had begun to program. However, I focused my time on WOTS and ignored the game until February 2009, which was when I was asked to make the game a clone of BLN. Of course, being stupid enough I had actually done it(Which in the long run doomed the game) and here we are now, the game hasn't even been out for a year and a half and it's on the verge of death. But enough with that, let's get onto the review.

Gameplay: Well, it's a PVP Training system with RP concepts, a pretty bad mix in my opinion, but it's what they wanted. The interface is pretty decent and in previous updates, some pretty neat features have been added(This is probably the only reason why it has a score of 6). 6/10

Presentation: The icons aren't that great(bar the turfs) but are 100% original(Credits to Xooxer for the free resources..grass, water, and sand tilesets all belong to him). Some icons are certainly better than others, and the game is presented decently well, especially with the optional tutorial which adds a bit of humor into the game. 7/10

Originality: The game, from programming to pixel art, is 100% original. Not much else to say besides it's a BLN clone and based off of bleach. 8/10

Community: Absoutley terrible. It's a mix of people from finalie and BLN combined. Most of the players are rude to newbies and the GMs suck(And they're probably the best we can get on the server, which is pretty sad). They all whine until they get what they want, which usually never happens. 1/10

Overall: A game just short of decent, and that's because of the fact that it has a terrible, terrible community, a BLN clone(Which if it was my choice, the game would be completly different but that means I'd have to reprogram a lot of stuff which I don't have time to do anymore). The roleplaying is okay, but it easily falls short of good. 6/10

Dayum.

Sun, 20 Sep 2009 17:29:13 GMT

I released the PVP server of BLH three days ago.

Dayum.

Microsoft MDSN partner.

Tue, 01 Sep 2009 14:36:33 GMT

My university is a partner with microsoft so I can download all their products for free...:D?

College

Sun, 30 Aug 2009 15:49:50 GMT

It's not that bad at all, food is decent, etc.

Classes start tommrow though :(. I was enjoying the small vacation from my parents.

One more thing about Vista Vs 7

Thu, 20 Aug 2009 20:49:32 GMT

Okay I know that vista preloads stuff into the memory, and the usuage has gotten better since i installed service pack 2 in it, but this is still funny.

http://i349.photobucket.com/albums/q362/Axerob/ Memoryusuage.png

http://i349.photobucket.com/albums/q362/Axerob/sigh.png

And this I found amusing too.

Why is that amusing? When I hit "resolve online now" it tells me that i'm not running a microsoft operating system.

Windows 7 RTM(Retail Version)

Wed, 19 Aug 2009 04:58:20 GMT

Well, I finished downloading and "upgraded" from the RC. Differences? It runs a little faster and uses a little more ram(Like, less than 100 MB with my usual programs running, went from 698 - 777 MB). Hell of a lot more stable, and a hell of a lot harder to activate.

The place i downloaded it from never gave me the product key and I got stuck.

Luckily, I had been torrenting an X64 version of Windows 7 and it had a toolkit. I used the toolkit and it worked, but Windows put up a fight, when I first logged on, there was a new program runnning called sppsvc.eve, which was some kind of windows protection service.

A few minutes later, a "This copy of Windows Might not be genuine!" and I was thinking "Oh crap..." I hit ignore and next thing you know I got an email with the following subject "Activate today.", I check my email and luckily it's spam and The only thing I won't be able to do is download stuff from microsoft that requires Windows to be vaildated, but who would want to do that anyway?

[edit]

http://www.microsoft.com/genuine/products/ Windows7.aspx?displaylang=en

ROAR Windows Vista...ROAR

Tue, 18 Aug 2009 10:35:57 GMT

I bought a laptop back in June for college, it's got some ok specs(Processor could be upgraded..the upgrade is mega cheap too :D) but it has one huge problem with it, one that I don't like, one that makes me go ROAR...Windows Vista.

Now I understand why the laptop has 4 GB of RAM...Idiling, Vista uses 1.59 GB of it..that's CRAZY. Meanwhile i'm sitting here using my almost 6 year old desktop with 2 GB of ram and Windows 7 is using...589 MB of RAM.(This also includes the programs i'm running.) [Vista] Takes so damn long to load up and shutdown, even 7 on my desktop beats it in both of those areas.

The only good thing I really have to say about vista is DAMN does it run quick on that laptop. Most Windows pop up instantly, along with 90% of the programs on it. Then again, I am comparing it to a P4 2.0 GHZ with MAYBE 133 MHZ FSB while the Laptop has a Core 2 Duo 2.0 Ghz 800 MHZ FSB(The upgrade is 2.4 GHZ with 1333 Ghz FSB).

Some Management to the blog(and renewing BYOND Membership)

Sun, 16 Aug 2009 20:39:13 GMT

Well, i've [sort of] cleaned up the CSS for my blog, it's still somewhat crappy, but there's not much I can do since I know little to nothing in CSS and i'm not bothered to learn right now.

I'll be 18 on the sixth of Setember, so I think for a birthday present i'll buy a BYOND Membership for someone(and probably myself) and continue to support BYOND. :)

Also, Here's a picture of me(Wearing Sunglasses in my room...I was bored okay? and it was 100 + dergees in my room...)

http://i349.photobucket.com/albums/q362/Axerob/ Photo0071.jpg?t=1250480276